Africa by Toto to play on eternal loop 'down in Africa'

Media playback is unsupported on your device Media caption The sound installation is somewhere in the Namib desert which is 81,000 sq

Guillermo Jimenez
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16 January, 2019, 19:44

Africa was the most streamed song of 2017, clocking up 440 million views on Youtube. He told the BBC that the solar batteries will keep the song going forever.

Somewhere amid the sand dunes of the world's oldest desert croons a soft voice: "It's gonna take a lot to take me away from you". Weezer famously made a cover of the song past year, and Pitbull's sampling of the song was featured on the Aquaman soundtrack.

A Namibian-German artist claims his sound installation in the Namib Desert, which is set to play "Africa" by Toto, will play the famous song forever.

"Set in the Namib desert, which is not only the oldest desert in Africa but the world, I set up a sound installation which pays tribute to probably the most popular song of the last four decades, Toto'sAfrica", writes Max.

Fittingly called Toto Forever, it uses a solar-powered MP3 player hooked up to six speakers situated on pedestals to broadcast the kalimba-heavy song into the surrounding dunes.

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He went on to explain that he sees "Toto Forever" as "a treasure that only the most loyal of Toto fans can find".

The exact location of the sound installation was not disclosed by the artist.

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